News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The idea behind start-up From The Ground Up’s debut products was to refresh yesterday’s snack foods to meet today’s nutritional expectations, according to brand owner Halen Brands.
'Now I know way too much about granola...'
Celebrity-backed brand This Bar Saves Lives has a simple message: You buy a bar, we’ll donate a live-saving pack of food to a child in need. But is this kind of margin-sapping business model something other less star-studded emerging CPG brands could...
While Argentina’s salted-snack consumption is low at one kilo per person compared with the nine kilos in the US in 2017, the market has plenty of potential, says Pablo García, general manager for foods at PepsiCo Argentina.
Manufacturers must seriously consider the opportunities presented by out of home occasions in Mexico and Brazil, says Kantar Worldpanel.
Naturex has expanded its regional application network with two laboratories in Latin America that it hopes will spur growth and deepen presence in the region.
The head of Norwegian company Pharma Marine said that creating new customers is the name of the game in the omega-3s business. Creating a new culinary oil enhanced with omega-3s will do this better than building a better soft gel product, he said.
After three years of stagnant revenues and declining volumes, Brazil’s bread and baked goods sector is set for a 2018 turnaround, says Mintel.
Brazilian authorities have swooped in connection with fraudulent laboratory test results for products intended for exports.
The European Commission wants to delist all companies involved in the latest cases of fraud in Brazil’s meat sector from having access to European Union (EU) markets, the EU executive’s spokesperson for health and food safety Anca Paduraru has told...
The amount of meat sold in Switzerland saw a slight year-on-year decline in 2017.
News in brief
ALDI has expanded its partnership with Instacart’s online grocery ordering and home delivery service to residents across Chicagoland, Northwest Indiana and as far west as Rockford, IL.
US exports of beef and pork for January grew year-on-year, bolstered by growing sales in the Japanese market, according to data released by USDA and compiled by USMEF.
The Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) has closed two sites run by processor Verbist over alleged fraud on labels.
Newly launched mobile app FoodAdvisr is targeting people who suffer from food allergies by providing advice on recipes, grocery shopping and restaurant dining.
Despite the 'natural' branding, processed plant proteins can contain a lot of additives. But it doesn't seem to matter to most consumers - and they can be removed at almost every step of the farm-to-fork process anyway, says the Good Food Institute.
A government committee has launched an inquiry into the consumption of energy drinks, after a study found that young people in the UK consume more energy drinks than any other European country.
Over the next three years, European Commission-backed accelerator Robot Union will select 40 robotics start-ups linked to agri-food and other sectors to stimulate the development of “novel and innovative” technologies.
Insects have a meaty, umami flavour with herby flavour notes - so why are most manufacturers using them in sweet products? It may be time for a category re-think, says one researcher.
Bureau Veritas has launched a traceability label to give consumers an insight into a product's journey through the supply chain.
Dispatches from Pittcon 2018 in Orlando
Demand for quick screening techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is growing for applications including detecting food fraud, according to Jeol USA.
Dragon’s Den success story Yee Kwan Ice Cream is looking to double exports to China.
Supplementation using insect-derived protein appears to offer no muscle mass or strength advantages over carbohydrate supplementation, according to a pioneering Danish study.
Two food testing labs from Vietnam and Australia are joining forces with a blockchain provider to extend globally-recognised GS1 industry standards into labs, in a bid to boost supply chain transparency and trust.
People have to take ownership of their lifestyle and find new ways to change their behaviour, as the debate over how best to tackle non-communicable diseases roars on in Malaysia.
FoodEx Japan
Vietnamese food firms say exports to Japan is at an all-time high, with greater quality control, increasingly favourable trade rules and new product development helping to drive business.
This time last year, Bugsolutely founder Massimo Reverberi provided us with a comprehensive assessment of the legal status of edible insects. Revising the topic 12 months on, he has found some significant changes.
Gulfood 2018
Cookie and candy manufacturer Shenzhen Rungu Food Co. Ltd. said that multiple push factors have brought the company’s business to new markets, including the Middle East.